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Chapter Seven

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Disclaimer: I still don't own Final Fantasy VII and/or Final Fantasy IX; the all mighty Squeresoft does.

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Cid was pacing back and forth in Alexandria's main hall while Cait Sith watched him with boredom, Vincent was leaning on a wall lost in his own thoughts, and RedXIII sat in the entrance of the hall waiting for Beatrix and Steiner to arrive.

"Cid, I swear, if you don't stop pacing right now I'll blast you into orbit!" Cait Sith yelled suddenly. Cid ignored him.

Just then Beatrix and Steiner appeared. "Took ya long enough!" Cid said as he finally came to a stop; Cait Sith let out a sigh of relief.

Steiner took a step forward, but it was Beatrix who spoke. "We are sorry, but we have good news. My soldiers have spotted your friends and ours in Burmecia."

"Burme-what?" Cid asked.

Steiner hung his head and Beatrix shook her head. "Burmecia; haven't you heard of it? It's almost ancient! It never stops raining there!"

RedXIII bowed his head, "We know nothing about this…Burmecia, but we will go if our friends are there."

Vincent, still leaning on the wall lifted his head up and gazed at Beatrix, in addition to seeing Vincent stare at her like that, Beatrix blushed. "How are we supposed to get there?" He asked.

"My Red Rose is the safest and fastest way to get to Burmecia." She turned to leave, but stopped as she heard Cait Sith's voice.

"Wait, what is…Red Rose?" He asked.

Beatrix turned around, a bit annoyed at the strangers. "It's an airship; I named it the Red Rose."

Cid's eyes lit up, "Did you just say…airship?" He asked.

Everyone except for Beatrix and Steiner hung there head and sighed.

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I got one of your friends.

\\ Bastard! //

Kuja grins at the boy tossing his hair back, and then he takes a step to the right revealing his prisoner.

\\ Eiko… you bastard! //

Kuja laughs bitterly.

What will you do now Zidane? Come and kill me like you did last time? 

\\ I didn't kill you Kuja! You killed yourself! //

Hahaha! Like I would believe that!

He turns around to leave.

\\ Wait! Stop! You can't do this to me! Eikoooooooo!!! //

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"Zidane! Zidane!"

"Argg…" Zidane woke to Vivi's desperate wake calls. "I'm all right Vivi; guess that last one knocked me out, huh?"

 Vivi nodded, "Cloud helped you, he casted a cure spell on you!"

Zidane's eyes went wide, "That can't be possible! He uses Black Magic, summons, Blue Magic, and not White Magic? What IS he?"

Cloud came in view at that moment holding a small, red, and round object. "This is Materia, we use these to use magic and summons, also some other things that I won't get into. Does that answer your questions Zidane?"

Zidane and Vivi stared at the small orb thing with much interest and nodded. Cloud slid the object back to the slots on his huge sword.

Just then, the sand beneath their feet started to move, covering their eyes with their hands and running away from the Iifa Tree, Cloud screamed. "What is going on!?"

Zidane tried to look up, but all he could make up was the base of some kind of a ship, an airship. "I think it's an airship!"

The three stopped and looked up. Zidane was right, there was an airship, but the way it flew, it certainly wasn't one of Beatrix's soldiers, since it was Beatrix's Red Rose.

"Cloud!" Someone from above them; the three looked turned their gaze to the sky as a railing was sent before them. "Climb up!"

Zidane turned to Cloud, "Friend of yours?" He asked. Cloud rolled his eyes and climbed up, followed by Zidane and then Vivi.

"What are you guys doing here?" Cloud asked as he reached the top. Cait Sith shrugged. "We were hoping that you'd tell us."

Cloud hung his head and shook it, and then continued to the deck where Cid was, he was followed by Zidane, Vivi, and Cait Sith.

Vivi tucked on Zidane's sleeves. "Will Eiko be all right?" He asked. Zidane stopped suddenly, looked down at Vivi's sad yellow eyes and his features softened.

He smiled, "Nothing will happen to her, we'll rescue her like we always do!"

"Cloud!" The two turned their heads to the screaming old pilot as he smacked Cloud's playfully; Cloud lost his balance and almost fell flat on his face. From the corner, Vincent only shook his head, while RedXIII napped.

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Kuja glared at his opponents, they were too many of them. There was the slut he had caught instead of the Queen/Princess Garnet who called herself Tifa, wearing her full armor and was ready to battle.

There was also his 'sister' Mikoto, she had no weapon, but he knew she knew magic just as good as he did.

Searching again, his eyes fell down upon the dragon knight whom helped rescue that bitch Tifa, she was holding her Lance in a fighting stance.

The Princess, (or is she queen now?), was holding on to her rod, ready to summon her Eidolons and fight with all her might. It made Kuja sick to see them like this, so brave yet so stupid.

There were two others, a huge muscular black man with a machine gun on one hand while the other was unharmed and unarmed; the other was a young ninja holding on to her shuriken so tightly. Probably trying to act brave, Kuja thought.

Looking at them now, all he had to do was cast one spell and they would fall to the ground, dead, unconscious, or injured. But he had a better idea.

He turned back to the little girl next to him grinning madly from ear to ear, he muttered a spell and the girl awake…her small green eyes were no more, for they were now red.

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"Her eyes!" Yuffie shrieked. "They're red!"

Barret gripped his normal hand into a fist and waved it in front of him, "That bastard! He's manipulating her!"

Garnet and Mikoto looked at the two with confused expressions on their faces. "What?" They both said in unison.

Freya rolled her eyes, "We will have more time to answer questions later, for now we have to fight Kuja!"

Yuffie jumped back in alarm. "She's going to summon!" She shrieked.

All eyes darted back to Eiko as she raised her flute before summoning.

Garnet gasped, "No! Eiko! Stop!!!"

But it was too late; they were surrounded by holy light. "What is this summon!?" Yuffie screamed. But Garnet had no time to answer that, she fell unconscious as holy hit her, right after her Tifa and Yuffie fell, Barret stayed fought the force with all his might, be he too fell. They all fell, but Mikoto stayed. Mikoto stayed and glared. Glared at Kuja.

Slowly, she started walking to her 'brother'.

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Author's Note:

Sorry it took too long, and sorry for the very short chapter! What will Mikoto do now? Find out in the next chapter! Now review please^_~